Pont Ribas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
The solution of the human phonation problem applying computational mechanics is covered by several research branches, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), biomechanics or acoustics, among others. ...
Dies Miracle, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-10-27)
The main object of this Thesis is the study of the dynamical coupling between cellular processes, and how this coupling gives rise to a well-defined behavior in the presence of non-linearities and noise. ...
Silva, Francisco José Maia da (Date of defense: 2016-02-29)
Devising new tools that expand our capabilities to sense and manipulate the world enables much of the scientific and technological progress around us. For example, light is increasingly more important ...
Garcia Sabaté, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-06-20)
Due to the increasing interest in space exploration, management of two-phase flows in the absence of gravity has become a key aspect in improving the efficiency of technological applications for space ...
Schwender, Jill (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
In recent years, carbon nanotube and graphene mechanical resonators have attracted considerable attention because of their unique properties. Their high resonance frequencies, high quality factors and ...
Wang, Bingxia (Date of defense: 2017-10-10)
The PhD project, entitled "Second harmonic generation in disordered nonlinear crystals: application to ultra-short laser pulse characterization", is devoted to the study of second harmonic generation ...
Vidas, Luciana (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
The physics of transition-metal oxides presents a challenge to our current understanding of condensed matter physics. The main difficulty arises from a competition between electron-electron and ...
Dubost, Brice (Date of defense: 2012-11-26)
(English) The study of quantum light-matter interaction with atomic ensembles is an active research area. This kind of system allows fundamental studies on measurement in the context of continuous ...
Behbood, Naeimeh (Date of defense: 2015-04-17)
(English) This thesis describes the generation of macroscopic spin singlets in a cold atomic ensemble by performing quantum non-demolition measurement. Toward this goal we have implemented a realtime ...